This is the first of the Lewis trilogy, no.199 above being the third.
Again very good, the same central character (Finn) is not yet an ex-cop. Dragged back from Glasgow to his native Isle of Lewis by a killing on the island deliberately copycatting one he is investigating in Glasgow.
Centres in many ways on a boat trip the islanders make to kill and prepare as food young gannets, a tradition which is apparently true and not fictional.
His relationships with the island characters, many of whom he went to school with, are brilliantly done — in this book, as possibly no.199 but I didn’t notice it there, you have current interaction/past interaction with the same person in successive chapters which is a clever novelistic device.
Lots more to read — great to have discovered from an uninspiring trip to the library a good quality modern crime writer I had never heard of!
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